Holocaust
Musealia’s Auschwitz Exhibition Receives Prestigious European Awards
8 Tammuz 5780 (30/06/2020) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: How is the version of the exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York different from the original one?
Musealia is a Spanish company that creates, … Leer más
Artists in the Nazi Camps, with Javier Molins
25 Sivan 5780 (16/06/2020) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What materials did the artists in the Nazi camps use, and where did they get them?
Javier Molins holds a doctorate in Fine Arts from the Polytechnic University … Leer más
Yad Vashem Spain: Testimony, Memory, Education, with Samuel Bengio
3 Shevat 5780 (28/01/2020) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: About how many Spanish educators have taken the course in how to teach the Holocaust which is given at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem?
On January 27, Europe commemorates … Leer más
Photographer: Documenting the Lodz Ghetto, with Dariusz Jablonski
25 Tevet 5780 (21/01/2020) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: Who was Chaim Rumkowski?
In 1987, several hundred color slides documenting scenes from the Lodz Ghetto during World War II were discovered in a second-hand bookstore in Vienna, Austria. These slides were the work … Leer más
“Julius Madritsch, Righteous Among the Nations”, with Piotr Szalsza
23 Sivan 5779 (25/06/2019) | Jorge RozemblumThis week’s trivia question: How many Jews signed a letter to Yad Vashem stating that Julius Madritsch had saved their lives?
Vienna-born Julius Madritsch was an expert in textiles. During the occupation of Poland, he served as a … Leer más
The American Press and the Holocaust: Witness or Accomplice? with Alicia Ors
25 Nisan 5779 (30/04/2019) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: How many articles did the New York Times publish about the Holocaust between 1936 and 1945 and how many did the Jewish Telegraphic Agency publish during the same … Leer más
Nazi Theft of Jewish Art, with Emilio Ramos-Sabas
29 Adar I 5779 (05/03/2019) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: Why was Hildebrand Gurlitt released after the Monuments Men had found 20 boxes of stolen artwork in his possession and he was captured by American troops in 1945?
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Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II, with Anna Shternshis
28 Heshvan 5779 (06/11/2018) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What criteria were used to choose which songs to include on this album?
Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II is a recording of … Leer más
Auschwitz: The Exhibition
14 Shevat 5778 (30/01/2018) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: Aside from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, what other museums and institutions have contributed to this exhibition?
On December 1 the world´s first Auschwitz traveling exhibition opened … Leer más
«Surviving Skokie», with Eli Adler
8 Shevat 5778 (23/01/2018) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What was the NSPA?
Eli Adler is a professional cinematographer with more than thirty years experience. He is a child of a Holocaust survivor, and has … Leer más
“Saved by Language”…and Saving a Language, with Bryan Kirschen
17 Av 5777 (08/08/2017) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What Jerusalem-based organization has helped to standardize a system of spelling for writing Ladino?
Dr. Bryan Kirschen is an American linguist who had already studied Hebrew, … Leer más
Jesús Casquete: Nazis at Street Level (the SA in the Weimar Republic)
4 Tammuz 5777 (27/06/2017) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What two key issues were present in Nazi ideology from the very beginning?
Jesús Casquete is a professor of the History of Social and Political Movements … Leer más
Misha Sidenberg: The Jewish Museum in Prague
9 Nisan 5777 (04/04/2017) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: How many objects did the pre-war Jewish Museum in Prague have, and how many did it have in May, 1945, at the end of World War II?
Vladimir Danovsky: «The Salvation» of Bulgarian Jews
17 Adar 5777 (14/03/2017) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: Who was Lilyana Panitza and how did her job make it possible for her to save Bulgarian Jews during World War II?
Vladimir Danovsky is a … Leer más
The Dominican Republic: Haven for Jewish Refugees
3 Adar 5777 (28/02/2017) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What conditions were imposed by the government of the Dominican Republic on the Jewish refugees that they took in during World War II?
The Dominican Republic … Leer más
Flying Couch: Amy Kurzweil’s Graphic Memoir
22 Heshvan 5777 (22/11/2016) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: Why did Amy Kurzweil name her graphic memoir Flying Couch?
Amy Kurzweil is a cartoonist and writer. Originally from the Boston area, she now lives in … Leer más
Bozenna Urbanowicz Gilbride: Children of Terror
13 Av 5776 (16/08/2016) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What was the UPA in World War II Ukraine?
Bozenna Urbanowicz was born into a Catholic family in 1934 in the far eastern area of Poland … Leer más
Dr. Dina Porat: Israeli Society, the Holocaust and its Survivors
28 Tammuz 5776 (02/08/2016) | Raquel Cornago
ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: How were the German Templers living in the Land of Israel involved in a plan to save European Jews from the Nazis?
Dr. … Leer más
Eva Heyman and her Diary, with Elvira Lindo
30 Sivan 5776 (05/07/2016) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What do the diaries of Anne Frank and Eva Heyman have in common?
Eva Heyman was born in Oradea, a city with a large Jewish population, … Leer más
Tomasz Magierski’s “Blinky and Me”: The Story of Animator Yoram Gross
17 Iyyar 5776 (24/05/2016) | Raquel CornagoENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ –This week’s trivia question: What unusual elements did Yoram Gross use to create the characters in his first Israeli-made animated films?
Yoram Gross was born in Krakow, Poland in 1926 and … Leer más